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A Long Island woman is using her own experience to help ease the strain for soon-to-be mothers.

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On A Positive Note: Be Her Village

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well the anticipation of welcoming a new baby can be extremely stressful. Now one local woman is using her own experience to help ease the strain. Other women may feel news. Twelve's Aaron Colton tells us about be her village tonight. On a positive note, I created a gift registry for moms to be able to get the support they need when they're having their baby. And the reason I knew that this needed to happen is because I was the mom that was overloaded with all of the things and I was so, so grateful for every single gift that my loved ones gave me. But it was not, I needed, I needed someone helping me understand how to take care of my baby, helping me understand how to take care of myself. So easy to get lost in all of the things you need for a new baby when really you do need that emotional support or a learning about it. I'm of the opinion that babies need One thing, a well supported mother. It is our mission to make sure that that happens. So tell me how it works. How do people get involved? There are all these people that help moms and then there's like an entire pelvic floor therapist, lactation consultants, mental health providers, people who come into your home and care for you after you have your baby and then their friends and family instead of buying them some like plastic baby gear or gadgets that the baby won't use their buying them the support that they need in that really important moment when you're bringing your baby home. this next generation of mothers, they don't want houses filled with things. Things cause anxiety. Things are things that you have like clean and organized and take care of and it's stressful. Whereas be her village and the gifts that we have actually reduce stress and reduce anxiety, how do people find you be her village dot com? It's that simple people are excited about the kind of gift that they know will be impactful and the name is perfect. It takes a village. What we need more than anything is that village in that community of support around us, more than we need a bunch of boxes filled with baby stuff And remember to join us for a full half hour of on a positive note every Friday night at seven.

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